James Deuchar (26 June 1930[1] – 9 September 1993) was a Scottish jazz trumpeter and big band arranger, born in Dundee, Scotland.
Deuchar was taught trumpet by John Lynch, who learned bugle playing as a boy soldier in the First World War, and who later was Director of Brass Music for Dundee.
After National Service at Padgate, Warrington, England, Deuchar worked with the British modern jazz unit the Johnny Dankworth Seven.
He also "sat in" with leading American players at Ronnie Scott's club as musical exchanges were liberalised at the start of the 1960s.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, he also worked with The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band,[1] featuring leading European and expatriate American musicians.